Pause

My father died last week.

I have been and will continue to write a cycle of poems about my family. 

However, please allow me a bit of time to pause and reflect.

Thanks so much for your support and understanding.

Audrey

(aka Poetweetry)

Jack of Hearts

Artist Rendering by
Audrey Schwartz Rivers
© 2013 by Poetweetry
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Knave bluffs

leers retrograde rebukes

cuts hand dealt

draws black aces

Guilt’s trump card

Since he already lost

goes all in

Jokers wild

 

Tweeted on Saturday February 2, 2013 at 4:57 pm CST

© 2013 by Audrey Schwartz Rivers and Poetweetry

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First Born

Anointed

blue ribbon shrine

pristine shoes

Daddy toe waltzes

bedroom sanctum

car keys

genetic guilt

default executor

Last shovelful of dirt

 

Tweeted on Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 4:30 p.m. CT

©2012 by Audrey S. Rivers & Poetweetry

That Age Thing

Awake

Joints oppose motion

Eyelids sag & collect night’s insomnia

Hot flashes+thyroid storms

Pill ledgers

That age thing

I become my mother

 

 

Tweeted Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 6:41 pm CST

©2012 by Poetweetry and A.S. Rivers

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White Light

Do the dying tally hours

or cast moments into days?

Dwell in vicissitudes

or inconsequential dreams?

Can luminosity pierce grave’s finale?

 

 

Tweeted Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 6:45 pm CST

©2012 by Poetweetry and A. S. Rivers

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Nursing Rhymes

Poetweeters Note:  I changed the title of the poem from “Nursery Rhymes” to “Nursing Rhymes.” 

 

 

Humpty tumbles

Boughs break

Cradles fall

Jack rolls down

& cracks his crown

All the king’s men useless

Bedtime fables end

 

 

 

Tweeted Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 2:41 pm CDT

©2012 by Poetweetry and A.S. Rivers

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Bequest

Built UR kitsch dream house

No one allowed on gold carpet

kids & pets confined 2 cellar

30yrs later in hospice

alone in shag carpet reverie

Tweeted on July 12, 2010 at 2:19 a.m.

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Family Secrets

Tell no family secrets

cancers, Zoloft

our posh facade’s 2 liens

Play Harlequin

Wear zirconia,

nibble tartar

& save  $$  4 marble crypt

Tweeted July 9, 2010 at 9:07 p.m.

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Poem for my Dying Mother

Childhood forgiven

invectives evaporate

futile love now compassion

Truth defeats irony

peace comes

with final sleep

as nightmares fall away

Tweeted July 5, 2010 at 2:17 p.m.

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Mother

My childhood vexed your dreams

Poems not proms

pets not paramours

Weird daughter disgraced womb

Caretaker never giver

luv priced too high

Tweeted:  May 10, 2009

© 2009 by Poetweetry.  All Rights Reserved